address this pressing open question in public finance, we estimate a life-cycle model in which the optimal employment …, retirement and consumption decisions of forward-looking individuals depend, inter alia, on life expectancy and the design of the …

This paper interprets accidents occurring on the way to and from work as negative health shocks to identify the causal … effect of health on labor market outcomes. We argue that in our sample of exactly matched treated and control workers, these … health shocks are quasi-randomly assigned. A fixed-effects difference-in-differences approach estimates a negative and …

during the 1990s and 2000s reduced the negative employment effects of cancer by 63-70 percent. These benefits of medical …

approach allows for disentangling the two counteracting mechanisms that drive the employment effects of partial retirement: 1 …) the crowding-out from full-time employment, and 2) the movement from early retirement or unemployment to partial … working lives but reduces the overall employment volume. The fiscal consequences of partial retirement are negative but …

during economic recessions and as a means to circumvent employment protection legislation …

workers who are typically less attached to the labor market. -- health ; employment ; income …This paper interprets accidents occurring on the way to and from work as negative health shocks to identify the causal … effect of health on labor market outcomes. We argue that in our sample of exactly matched treated and control workers, these …

workers who are typically less attached to the labor market. -- health ; employment ; income …This paper interprets accidents occurring on the way to and from work as negative health shocks to identify the causal … effect of health on labor market outcomes. We argue that in our sample of exactly matched treated and control workers, these …